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Had to tell my boss so I could claim the overtime.

There's a great way to stop people stealing corporate data. Pay them a decent wage and treat them well. It really isn't rocket science.

Q1 should be page 12 not page 10.

Thanks for owning up to this. It did look suspicious that the post was edited and the original poster was denying it. Apologies to the original poster if I caused any offence but I think we can all see why it looked bad. I understand you were just trying to help. I would still recommend that the documentation used in the…

Are you sure Unmanaging removes all historic data. I was under the impression it just stopped the collection of data whereas deleting the node removes the historical data.

Very thin margins with me. I don't pay for delivery. I wait until I want enough stuff to qualify for free delivery then wait the 3 - 5 days for delivery. 

IBM and VMWare. We are currently running away from IBM as fast as possible. Their service is really bad and very expensive. We are bringing it in house first and will then look at moving some stuff to Azure, some to AWS and some to hosted data centres. Whatever fits best. Just no IBM after 5 years of pain.

Would have been nice to see some real world examples instead of some fluffy statements and generalisations. This was probably the most disappointing session (or I didn't understand what it was intended to be).

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They did that here and decided that about 200 role based accounts should be deleted. I urged caution (i.e. disable them for a while to see what broke but did they listen - NO). Cue chaos as all sorts of scheduled tasks, scripts, backup jobs and applications failed. We are still fixing problems. Fortunately they did keep a…

That's an extremely poorly worded question. If you were trying to trick someone you couldn't have done a better job. You should be ashamed.

Tesla. I'd imagine there is some truth in both stories but the big corporate is doing the usual and jumping all over the little guy. No matter what happens they will lose reputation. They should have addressed the guys concerns and thanked him for his help.

Oh no. AI in the cloud where it can expand uncontrollably, reach sentience and create T-100 terminators 

I'm not sure you CAN win Wabbott or Brett. Definitely different prizes.

At grammar school in the 70's we had to chose our 'O' level subjects. There was a new one called Computer Studies. I was going to do the sciences anyway so thought it might be fun. Day one of 4th year (1st year of 'O' level) the teacher introduced himself. He had worked at NASA on the moon landings on the IT side of…

Had an interesting two weeks in Germany travelling around British Army bases doing upgrades to the radio stations. We went through two hire cars because of the Autobahns. I feel the need, the need for speed.

Absolutely. I remember one comedian who was visiting his American relatives and saying he would "Lay the table". The response was "Mind the knife drawer".

Users are definitely part of the problem. We have just had one phished who entered their Active Directory username and password into a website they linked to from an e-mail because they thought they were winning something from a restaurant chain. How could they possibly think that was OK.

Beer. I have Friday off to go to the Great British Beer Festival at Olympia in London. Over 900 real ales, craft beers, ciders and perries all under one roof. Should get as messy as usual.

I'd settle for hearing whether I have been 'approved' or not. No one at Solarwinds appears to be responding to my messages.

Maybe you should refrain from commenting until you read the full story. If you had you would have seen that the documentation contradicted itself.

Google caught yet again and, true to form, denying everything in spite of being caught "Red Handed". Why am I not surprised.

Very true. Unfortunately management seem to think AI is here already and we can all be replaced by numpties who can barely walk and talk at the same time. The systems will look after themselves. At present I would settle for Intelligence at work, never mind Artificial Intelligence.

On site will never disappear. Some stuff will move to the cloud because it is suitable but hybrid will be the future. Quite often the business forces us to do stuff we don't like or want. For example, moving two floors of staff to a managed building in three weeks time and the managed building only has one link to the…

That's funny because I now sit in my pants in front of a PC and get frustrated about how bad most things are configured (I'm fairly new here so am not responsible for that). I'm still bad at scripting and I used to be a mainframe programmer.

The hint leads to NOT FOUND The item does not exist. It may have been deleted.

Of course the government is spying on us using any and all means available. That's why I wear a tinfoil hat.

It does give the answer in the next section.

Unfortunately I am the new guy hired to work on the Orion system (as well as general server support and all the other stuff they want me to do). No handover and no documentation. What fun. 

A London one again would be great (1 or 2 day). There were certainly enough people interested with over 150 in attendance. The photos at the top of this discussion showing lots of people (#2 and #3) in the big room are from London.